Bios cant detect hard drive after norton software srewed up everything

First - re-seat the hard disk and reboot the computer. If the computer does not boot up then reboot and go into the BIOS configuration to see if the BIOS detects the hard drive. If it doesn't detect the hard drive then it could be faulty.
Then the hard drive needs to be replaced in the computer/laptop, Windows installed and the computer or laptop's device drivers plus your programs etc. to get a functioning computer/laptop again.

The hard drive may be faulty.
Go into the BIOS setting and see if the BIOS detects the hard disk, if not reseat the hard drive and if the BIOS still does not detect the hard disk then the hard disk is faulty.

Hi skjelmose

It looks like there has been some form of corruption during the cloning and the Acer Aspire 135's BIOS can tell the difference between the original drive and the 2 clones.

Another possibility may be that Virus Detection is enabled in BIOS and some files on the cloned drives are being assessed as suspect. The BIOS retains, in its memory, the parameters of the last successful boot with the original drive and errs on the side of caution with even the smallest of differential anomalies on the clones.

Successful cloning requires good software and attention to detail. You do not need 2 separate items of software to clone a drive. To clone a drive successfully you must detach and connect both the original and the empty drives to a 2nd computer using some paired combination of a hard drive dock, a hard drive enclosure or a USB to IDE/SATA Adapter Cable on which a single example of a good Hard Drive or Partition Management application is installed.

You can clone drives easily and effectively with a single piece of software such as (most are available in Free Download and/or Trial format):

Partition Commander (http://www.avanquest.com/UK/trialDownload.html?pid=tcm:12-59089-64)

Partition Magic (http://www.softpedia.com/get/System/Hard-Disk-Utils/Partition-Magic.shtml)

Symantec PartitionMagic (http://us.norton.com/products/overview.jsp?pcid=sp&pvid=pm80)

Partition Manager (http://www.paragon-software.com/home/pm-express/download.html)

I hope this helps.

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Dead drive.

Shut down the computer.Disconnect the ide cable from hdd .Just connect using primary hdd and boot the computer. Shut down the computer. Connect the secondary hdd both IDE and power cable. Restart the system and go to bios . Check if the both hdd are detected in bios. If detected boot to desktop. If not detected reset bios settings to default.Restart computer and check. IF still not detected shutdown computer.Disconnected secondary hdd and primary hdd,connected secondary hdd to primary ide connecter and check in bios. If still not detected try connecting secondard hdd on different computer and check.

If the laptop cannot detect the hard drive. This can be caused by a faulty disk controller, or a faulty disk drive.

1st. Reseat the hard drive and see if the laptop boots up.

2nd. Go into the BIOS configuration and see if the BIOS detects the hard drive.

3rd. If the BIOS can't detect the hard disk, the remove the hard drive and connect it to an USB hard drive adapter and plug it into a working computer's USB port. If this computer detects this drive as an external disk drive and you can see the contents of the hard drive, then the hard drive is OK and the fault is in the laptop.

4th. If the hard drive cannot be detected then the hard drive is faulty, you need to replace the faulty hard drive in your laptop and install Windows to get an operating laptop again.

check the cables it properly connected or not. after start up press F8 key to check the installed hard drive is detected or not. if it is not, check with BIOS settings

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Norton Anti-Virus 2008 was made to not be uninstalled. It had integrated itself into your system files preventing Windows Installer from removing the anti-virus machine. Symantec has made this tool available to remove the product. However believe me when I say traces of Norton will remain until the hard-drive is reformatted.

http://service1.symantec.com/Support/tsgeninfo.nsf/docid/2005033108162039

Once you remove Norton, I highly recommend you stop using Symantec products and check out ESET's product line of Anti-Virus and online-security tools.

http://www.eset.com

Boot in safe mode and try to run virus software.
If you can remove hard drive? find another hard drive that has a system with virus software, and make your drive the secondary drive and run virus software.
Usually your virus cd boots or lets you make a boot floppy, when booted run virus software.
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Hi,

When your system boots, go to bios by pressing del key (some model have f10 key depends on you pc model). Check there hard is detected or not. Some sysem bios have hard disk daignostic utility, you can daignose hard dirsk from there also. Try to change data cable of hdd drive.

Thanks,

Vksr